Sphero Mini Education 16-Pack

SKU: 910-0365

Introduce a playful, imaginative, and easy-to-use STEAM learning tool to your elementary classroom! Sphero Mini is compact, measuring about the size of a ping pong ball, and offers  intuitive programming and a host of features that make it an exciting addition to your learning environment. Each Mini Activity Kit in the Education 16-Pack contains a clear Sphero Mini, bumper covers, traffic cones, bowling pins, construction sets, and activity cards, supporting both individual and group learning for up to 3 students per Mini.

Sphero Mini Features and Benefits

  • PROGRAMMING FOR BEGINNERS: Sphero Mini provides three programming canvases suitable for elementary learners*: Draw, Blocks, and Text in the Sphero Edu app, allowing young students to quickly learn to program, control the robot's movements, and customize its features.
  • EXPANSIVE ACTIVITY LIBRARY: The Sphero Edu app offers a vast array of activities that teach computer science concepts and enhances learning in core subjects like math, science, and ELA, making it easy for educators to incorporate STEAM into their curriculum.
  • PACKED WITH TECH: Sphero Mini contains a gyroscope, motor encoders, and accelerometer, as well as a bright, colorful LED to add an extra layer of excitement to the learning process. 
  • TABLETOP FRIENDLY:  Mini is small enough for desktop learning but sturdy enough to roll around on the floor. Students can easily maneuver the robots around their desks or workspaces, encouraging hands-on learning and interaction in a space-efficient manner.
  • EXCITING ACCESSORIES: This pack comes with a range of exciting accessories, including bumper covers, mini traffic cones, bowling pins, and construction sets that offer endless possibilities for imaginative play and learning—from navigating mazes to robot races!
  • FLEXIBLE LEARNING: The Sphero Mini Education 16-Pack supports both individualized learning and collaborative group projects. The Mini robots and accessories in the pack are packaged individually, making it easy to use for individualized learning, or can be used for collaborative group projects with up to 3 learners per bot.

*Adult supervision is required for children under eight as Mini's shell is designed to open up, exposing smaller parts that need to be handled with care and could be a choking hazard for little ones.

Get in touch with our team of education experts to schedule a free virtual demo, get a quote, or ensure timely end of school year delivery on large volume orders.

SpheroCare Warranty
1 year: $61.99
2 year: $81.99
3 year: $109.99

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What's Included

  • 16 Sphero Mini app-enabled robotic balls
  • 16 Robotic ball covers
  • 16 sets of 6 pins and 3 cones
  • 16 construction sets
  • 16 splitter USB cables
  • 16 sets of 15 activity cards
  • 1:1 Robots/Accessories/Activity Cards packaged together

Product Dimensions

Sphero Mini Robot: 1.57 x 1.57 x 1.57 inches

Device Compatibility

Sphero Edu App (For School): Students code using Draw, Blocks, or Javascript. Access 1000s of activities and manage your classroom. Chrome, Mac, PC, iOS, Android, Kindle

Sphero Play App (For Home): Kids use Block Drive for an intro to programming with colorful blocks. iOS, Android, Kindle

Price:
$1,299

Tech Specs

Boy playing a bowling game with mini STEAM robot on a table.

Hands-On STEAM Learning for the Creators of Tomorrow

Hours of Play-Based Learning

Beginner learners can drive and play STEAM-inspired games with the Sphero Play app and eventually advance to programming with Block Based Coding or Javascript in the Sphero Edu app. The Sphero Mini At-Home Learning Starter Kit is ideal for educators to send home for individualized learning and can be easily facilitated and guided by parents.

 

Featured Activities

Student sitting on the floor with Iphone and Sphero mini, putting together a STEAM mini activity kit
Topple the pins and cones off your tall tower.
Student sitting on the floor coding Sphero mini STEM robot through mini activity kit course
Roll your tiny robot into the arches to score big.
Girl programming Sphero mini robot on laptop
Construct a story around the construction set.
Hand coding Sphero mini STEAM Robot on ipad

TEENY TINY TECH

Hours of Fun

The tiny, wildly popular app-enabled robotic ball now comes with even more to explore! The Sphero Mini Activity Kit has everything little inventors need to get rolling, coding, and playing within minutes

Step-by-Step Learning

Learn the fundamentals of STEM and coding by following the step-by-step activity cards with 15 challenges and games that offer hours of hands-on learning and play

Build. Play. Learn. Code

For the first time ever, Sphero’s Mini now combines a 28-piece construction kit with step-by-step Activity Cards to help expand play time and imagination. Discover 15 games and challenges.

Student coding STEAM mini robot through salt and pepper grinder

Sphero goes #BeyondCode

Sphero provides a STEAM-based tool set unbounded in its potential. Sphero uses programmable robots and STEM kits to foster students’ creativity through discovery and play while laying the foundation for computer science and other STEM fundamentals. Our program goes #BeyondCode with collaborative play-based activities, nurturing students’ imagination unmatched by other STEM education programs. Cross-platform apps are approachable for all skill levels so you can foster learning and creativity in any grade.

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  • Introduce young learners to computer science principles with screenless and app-enabled coding options!

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SKILL LEVEL

  • Early Learner

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  • Beginner

    • Drive modes
    • Draw coding
    • Block-based coding
  • Beginner

    • Engineering
    • Circuit building
  • Intermediate-Advanced

    • Block-based coding
    • JavaScript

FREE APPS

  • Screenless Coding Concepts: Students discover how to program indi through color.

    Sphero Edu Jr. App: iOS, Android, Kindle

  • Sphero Edu: Chrome, Mac, PC, iOS, Android, Kindle

    Sphero Play: iOS, Android, Kindle

  • Fuse app: Fuse is a progressive web app that is browser based and uses Chrome’s fast web USB/BLE API for connection management.

  • Sphero Edu: Chrome, Mac, PC, iOS, Android, Kindle

    Sphero Play: iOS, Android, Kindle

SPHEROCARE

  • 1-3 Year Warranty

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  • 1-3 Year Warranty

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Enhance your learning with Sphero's Computer Science Foundations

Computer Science Foundations is a standards-aligned, supplemental curriculum built on the K12 Computer Science Framework Principles. Scaffolded across three courses and 72 lessons, teachers and students build Draw, Block, and Text coding skills. They then integrate these concepts into curricular content: everything from polygons and poetry to logic-puzzlers and compliment-givers.

Educator Resources

Free teacher resources designed to keep you informed and enrich your classroom experiences. Here you’ll find our latest guides, whitepapers, case studies and webinars all in one place.
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Guide to STEM Funding

When it comes to incorporating STEAM into the classroom, support can come from a surprising number of sources -- and sometimes, all you have to do is ask. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of resources to help drive innovative tech adoption.

  • Federal Grants
  • Corporate Grants
  • Organizational Grants
  • Local Grants & Partnerships
  • Crowdfunding

App Downloads

Sphero Edu app icon.

Sphero Edu App

Sphero Edu is your hub to create, contribute, and learn with Sphero robots.

Sphero Play App Icon

Sphero Play

Drive and play games from ONE app with your Sphero robot.

Sphero mini STEAM robot with all mini activity kit pieces laid out

What's in the box?

  • 16 Sphero Mini app-enabled robotic balls w/clear shells and laser-etched IDs
  • 16 Robotic ball covers
  • 16 sets of 6 pins and 3 cones
  • 16 construction sets
  • 16 splitter USB cables
  • 16 sets of 15 activity cards
  • 1:1 Robots/Accessories/Activity Cards packaged together
  • STEAM-related callouts
  • 3 in each category based on ability
  • QR codes link to a programs where students can run and manipulate code.
  • Free Sphero Edu app available for download on iOS, Android, Kindle, Mac, Windows, and Chrome
  • Free Sphero Play app available for download on iOS and Android

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